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My entire education in music was in reading interviews with bands like Stereolab and finding out about Brazilian music or a Romanian composer. You expose yourself to what people you look up to admire.

Bradford Cox

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Bradford Cox
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: May 15
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When I started having a couple of beers and loosening up, I realized how many years I had wasted going back to my hotel room alone when I could have gone and just had a beer or two.
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People say 'I don't want to die alone!' But you know what, honestly? I don't want to die with a bunch of people looking at me.
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I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.
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I see a lot of people doing an '80s thing who weren't even born until the '90s.
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The sober guy is always going to have this air of arrogance or self-righteousness, but it's not my intention. I just knew that if I drank, I'd have a drinking problem.
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I'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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I think the younger kids need to realize there's this whole forgotten 90s that people don't really talk about.
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You read about that Black Lips/Wavves fight as a spectator and you're like, Oh man, I'm gonna pick a team to be on! I'm gonna put my two cents in as my status update on my Facebook page or something. Not to sound like an anti-technology person, but it's just a real drag that people live their lives that way.
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I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it.
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It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.
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I've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
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I am asexual. A-sexual. I read somewhere, maybe on Facebook, where somebody said something like, I heard Bradford was gay, but then I heard he was bi. Then somebody wrote, No, I heard he was asexual. And then somebody said, That's bullshit - he totally hit on my friend after a show.
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I refuse to put myself into a situation in which I have to face some kind of I'm losing it kind of thing. I'm not losing it it's changed. What it is is changing.
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I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.
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I'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.
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Musicians and artists are not... it's not like politicians or something where you can't really affect them. There's not like this separate caste system where it's like, I'm the musician, you're the audience. Never the two shall meet. It was a case where it was like, Hey, you know what? I'm on your level, man.
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I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?
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I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?
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I've always said I write albums I don't write random songs and then sort them out.
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